CHAP. 32.—THE CENTAURIS TRIORCHIS: TWO REMEDIES.
There is a third kind of centaury also, known as the “centauris triorchis.”[646] It is but rarely that a person cuts it without wounding himself. The juice emitted is just the colour of blood.[647] Theophrastus relates that this plant is under the protection of the triorchis, a kind of hawk, which attacks those who gather it; a circumstance to which it owes its name. Ignorant[648] persons are in the habit of confounding all these characteristics, and attributing them to the centaury first named.